75 Artists Who Received Grants From New Warhol Fund

Following are initial grants awarded by Creative Capital,

a new fund to support individual artists.

EMERGING FIELDS

Betty Beaumont (New York): $15,000 for “Decompression,” a Web site that will include articles, documents, and images about technology, science, and the arts.

Natalie Bookchin (Los Angeles): $12,000 to develop a free-standing computer-arcade game and a related on-line game entitled “The Intruder,” based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

Josely Carvalho (New York): $8,000 for “Book of Roofs,” a project that will display digital video on repeating patterns of clay tiles and maintain a related Web site.

Maya Sara Churi (New York): $5,000 for “Letters from Homeroom,” a video and Internet project based on letters written by girls in high school.

Patrick Clancy (Kansas City, Mo.): $7,000 to create “The Writing Machine,” an interactive text- and sound-based work for the World-Wide Web that will also be exhibited as an installation piece.

Alison Cornyn (New York): $5,000 to create “360 Degrees,” an on-line investigation of the American criminal-justice system that will examine such issues as immigration, welfare-law changes, and class bias.

Leah Gilliam (Tivoli, N.Y.): $5,000 for a Web site and CD-ROM to examine questions of identity in cyberspace using the 1997 Mars Pathfinder Mission as a backdrop.

Jessica Irish (Los Angeles): $5,000 for a Web site that explores a merger of architecture, information technologies, and advertising.

Prema Murthy (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $7,000 for a Web-based project that will depict stories from women who work in high-technology jobs in India, the Philippines, and Thailand.

John Simon, Jr. (New York): $12,000 to create “Color Balance,” a computer-based interactive installation piece based on the writings of the painter Paul Klee.

Ray Thomas (Loudonville, N.Y.): $5,000 to create a data base on the Internet in which artists can post ideas and benefactors can offer financial support.

Helen Thorington (Staten Island, N.Y.): $5,000 for an on-line collaboration with the artists Marak Walczak and Jesse Gilbert.

MEDIA

Peggy Ahwesh (New York): $7,500 for “The Star Eaters,” a 70-minute video that relates the experiences and memories of a woman on the Atlantic City boardwalk.

Craig Baldwin (San Francisco): $5,000 to create “Spectres of the Spectrum,” a 16-millimeter feature that examines issues of “personal creative agency” in the face of media globalization and monopolies.

Roddy Bogawa (New York): $7,500 for “I Was Born, but …,” a film about the assimilation of Asians into American culture.

Portia Cobb (Milwaukee): $10,000 for “Yonges Island,” a documentary exploring the ownership and loss of inherited land by Southern blacks.

Adam Cohen (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $6,000 to complete “City Poem 3,” a half-hour Super 8-to-video documentary on the suburbanization of New York’s 42nd Street.

Jem Cohen (New York): $10,000 for “Chain,” a narrative feature film based on documentary footage on landscapes and human stories in locations including Berlin and Los Angeles.

Todd Downing (New York): $6,000 for “Jeffrey’s Hollywood Screen Trick,” a stop-motion animated film that critiques recent romantic comedies containing gay themes.

Sandi DuBowski (New York): $5,000 for “Trembling Before G-d,” a documentary about Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who come out as gays and lesbians.

Jeanne Finley (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $5,000 for “Loss Prevention,” a video-based installation that follows two shoplifters and examines the experiences that result from their thievery.

Barbara Hammer (New York): $10,000 for “Resisting Paradise,” an experimental documentary that juxtaposes French paintings and interviews with three French resistance fighters.

Jon Jolles (Baltimore): $3,200 for “Levels,” a film about obsession starring a man who travels the country leveling tables.

Lewis Klahr (Los Angeles): $5,000 for “The Diptherians,” an animated film about bohemian mythological beings who live among mortals.

Chris Munch (Los Angeles): $5,000 for “Backward Looks, Far Corners,” a narrative film about a dying woman in her 50’s and her family members and past lovers.

Spencer Nakasako (San Francisco): $5,000 for an experimental documentary that follows the lives of three young refugees from Southeast Asia.

Diane Nerwen (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $6,500 for a videotape that explores contemporary Jewish-American attitudes toward Germany.

Joanna Priestley (Portland, Ore.): $5,000 for “Rapture of the Deep,” a film that uses three styles of animation presented on a three-tiered structure.

Scott Saunders (New York): $7,500 for “The Technical Writer,” a feature-length digital-video project that tells the story of a writer of computer manuals and examines emotions, sex, technology, and alienation in contemporary society.

Philip Solomon (Broomfield, Colo.): $5,000 for “Night of the Meek,” a short expressionistic film interpretation of the famous Jewish legend of the Golem in the context of fighting genocide.

T. Tran (Los Angeles): $8,000 for “The Blindness Series,” a collection of eight videotapes that examines literal and metaphorical ways of not seeing.

Ela Troyano (New York): $7,500 for a feature-length film about the Cuban pop singer La Lupe.

PERFORMANCE

Djola Branner (Minneapolis): $5,000 for “Mighty Real,” an interdisciplinary theater performance that chronicles the life and times of the disco singer Sylvester set against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s election and the advent of the AIDS epidemic.

Jane Comfort (New York): $7,000 for “Asphalt Yards,” an evening-length dance and theater work with music by the composer Toshi Reagon and text by the artist Carl Hancock Rux.

Fred Curchack (Richardson, Tex.): $5,000 for “King Lear Project,” in which the artist uses costumes, masks, puppets, press clippings, and videotapes to explore Shakespeare’s tragic character.

Brian Freeman (San Francisco): $7,000 for “A Slight Variance,” a theater performance about gay and lesbian stereotypes that takes its title from a mid-century medical analysis of homosexuality.

Janie Geiser (Los Angeles): $15,000 for a puppet-based theater and musical work in collaboration with the singer and songwriter Vic Chestnutt.

Joe Goode (San Francisco): $5,000 for “Undertaking Harry,” an interdisciplinary dance work about Harry Hay, a founder of the Mattachine Society, a gay-liberation group formed in 1951.

David Hancock (St. Peter, Minn.): $10,000 for “The Sisters of Eve,” a theatrical piece about a dwarf hermaphrodite who claims to be the sole survivor of a New England town destroyed by a hurricane.

Rennie Harris (Philadelphia): $7,000 for “Rome & Jewels,” a hip-hop dance adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Jon Jang (San Francisco): $10,000 for “When Sorrow Turns to Joy,” a vocal and instrumental tribute to Paul Robeson, who popularized black spirituals and work songs, and Mei Lanfang, who introduced Chinese operas outside China.

John Jasperse (New York): $5,000 for “Place,” a dance and performance work for five dancers that examines how environment affects behavior and emotion.

Daniel Jones (Springfield, Mass.): $5,000 for “Whale,” a performance and installation work about a multiracial family and the coded language its members use.

Lisa Kron (New York): $5,000 for “The Contents of Mildred’s Purse,” a play in which two disparate characters try to discover the identity of a fictional audience member who dies.

Ralph Lemon (New York): $10,000 for “The Geography Trilogy/Part 3: America/Home,” a multidisciplinary research and performance project that explores this choreographer’s roots in the American South.

Richard Maxwell (New York): $7,000 for “House,” an hour-long play about a murder in a mundane, suburban family that relies on silences to communicate.

Meredith Monk (New York): $5,000 for a collaboration with the visual artist Ann Hamilton to explore art and science.

Jennifer Monson (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $10,000 for “Bird Brain,” a touring dance project based on the migratory patterns and behaviors of birds.

Tracie Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $7,000 for “The East New York Project,” a one-woman performance piece based on the history of Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, where this hip-hop poet and artist grew up.

Jarrad Powell (Seattle); $5,000 for “Kali,” an experimental opera that uses stories and images from the ancient Hindu epic poem “The Mahabharata” and contemporary events in Indonesia to explore human suffering and compassion.

Amelia Rudolph (Oakland, Cal.): $10,000 for “Crossing,” a project in which performers will climb back and forth along the Sierra Nevada mountain range and create a dance on the highest point of the traverse.

Carl Hancock Rux (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $5,000 for “Talk,” a theater piece, modeled on Plato’s dialogues, in which four panelists discuss the work of a fictional black artist.

Elizabeth Streb (New York): $5,000 for “Action Heroes,” a series of “extreme action” dance and movement works that relate traditional circus arts and other stunts to issues of culture and class.

Sekou Sundiata (Bronx, N.Y.): $7,000 for “Elijah,” a dramatic and operatic piece that explores contemporary and historical slavery.

Basil Twist (New York): $5,000 for “Behind the Lid,” a puppet show based on the memories and dream sequences of one of its characters.

VISUAL ARTS

Xenobia Bailey (New York): $6,000 for “Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk,” a crafts installation that incorporates crocheted mandalas, tapestries, and “street wear” into a space where viewers can enter and poets can perform.

Conrad Bakker (Grand Rapids, Mich.): $5,000 to create a four-color mail-order catalogue that features everyday objects that the artist has carved and painted, as part of a larger examination of the nature of objects and their function.

Erika Blumenfeld (Santa Fe, N.M.): $5,000 for “Light Leaks,” which will record daylight on the summer solstice, June 21, without using a camera.

Tony Cokes (Providence, R.I.): $5,000 for a year-long project that will mount billboards in Boston examining the cultural imprint of Malcolm X.

Chris Doyle (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $10,000 for “Leap,” a video projection of 420 New Yorkers who will appear one by one at the base of a building on New York’s Columbus Circle, and related posters and images in the New York subway.

Matthew Geller (New York): $10,000 for “Foggy Day,” an outdoor installation that will fill three heavily trafficked but semi-enclosed spots with fog at certain times of the day, adding a sense of “otherworldliness” to the ordinary workday environment.

Maria Elena Gonzalez (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $12,000 for “Magic Carpet/Home,” in which the artist creates outdoor sculptures that mirror the floor plans of apartments in adjacent public housing.

Fred Holland (New York): $8,000 to create sculptures from discarded materials, such as pennies, onion peels, and teeth, that will focus on healing and superstition.

Martha Jackson-Jarvis (Washington): $8,000 for “The Garden Wall,” an installation of sculpture and plants that uses materials and forms of early Southern vernacular black architecture.

Wendy Jacob (Cambridge, Mass.): $20,000 for “The Squeeze Chair Project,” a prototype design for an overstuffed chair that calms autistic children by holding the sitter in a firm hug.

Shannon Kennedy (Minneapolis): $10,000 to film the interiors of buildings using a gastroscope, which is normally used to examine the human digestive tract.

Zoe Leonard (New York): $8,000 to create a photographic grid that documents the demise of small businesses in large cities.

Zhi Lin (Springfield, Mo.): $6,000 for a cycle of paintings that depict different forms of capital punishment and torture used in China for centuries.

Jyung Park (Baltimore): $10,000 for an installation of sculptures formed from folded and layered rice paper that evoke thatched roofs, Buddhist lanterns, and other images.

Alex Rivera (New York): $10,000 for “Tijuana 2000,” which uses digital photography and editing software to create a mural reflecting stories from south of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Jason Salavon (Chicago): $8,000 for “A Thousand Butterflies,” a dark room in which hundreds of controls stud the walls and participants create a display as they move through the installation.

Joseph Scanlan (Brooklyn, N.Y.): $12,000 for “Pay Dirt,” a project that will explore the artistic use of commercial products through the creation, patenting, and manufacture of potting soil.

Sue Schaffner (New York): $8,000 for “Gynadome: A Separate Paradise,” an advertisement and Web site that will use the “frequently asked questions (FAQ)” format to explore lesbian issues.

Mary Ellen Strom (New York): $10,000 for “Girls &,” a sculpture, video, and performance project created from the experiences of 10 girls who participated in workshops with the artist.

Mel Ziegler (Austin, Tex.): $10,000 to print 150,000 paint charts that match 50 color names to texts exploring public housing and housing legislation in the United States.